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[How to] Connect your Android Ice Cream Sandwich Phone to Ubuntu for File Access
The Galaxy Nexus – such a great phone, and one that wows anyone who uses it.
But there is one area in which the phone falls short: getting it hooked up to my Ubuntu laptop.
Read on for a quick guide on accessing your Nexus S files from Ubuntu.
Ubuntu’s One Hundred Paper Cuts Project is Precisely Back!
Three, two, one, GO! The One Hundred Paper Cuts project is back for the Ubuntu 12.04 development cycle, to make 12.04 LTS the most bug-free, precise and pixel-perfect Ubuntu release ever! What is a paper cut? No, not the ones you get on your fingers. Put briefly, a paper cut is a trivially fixable usability bug that [...]
Ubuntu Desktop Designers: ‘Unity Should Be Configurable’
Ever since Ubuntu 11.04, the lack of the ability to configure many aspects of the new Unity interface has been pointed out and questioned widely. Today, at the “Meet Ubuntu Desktop Designers” session in the Ubuntu Developer Summit being held in Orlando, Florida, members of the Canonical design team clarified that they never intended Unity [...]
One Hundred Paper Cuts’ Oneiric cycle has started, get involved!
It’s the beginning of yet another cycle of bug fixing, squashing, smashing and thrashing! The One Hundred Papercuts Project is back for the Oneiric cycle, with lots of tiny and trivial bugs, a.k.a Papercuts, waiting to be fixed by everyday people like yourself.
Make the jump to find out how you can help.
GNOME3 packages begin trickling into Ubuntu 11.10
Due to the high priority of Unity in the Ubuntu 11.04 development cycle, the inclusion of GNOME3 into Ubuntu were postponed until 11.10, and Unity was shipped in Ubuntu 11.04 as a shell for GNOME2 instead.
Not wanting to waste any time, development on 11.10 started yesterday and GNOME3 packages have begun landing in Ubuntu 11.10.
Software Center adds ‘inappropriate rating’ link, and more
An update to Software Center in Ubuntu Natty brought a couple of changes to the ‘Ratings and Reviews’ feature, including the ability to mark a review inappropriate, disability to review an app if it isn’t installed, and many more.
Ubuntu One in Natty gets notification-savvy
It may not have an Indicator icon on the panel like Dropbox does, but that doesn’t mean that you won’t be notified by Ubuntu One about what it’s up to, with your files.
Next Ubuntu Developer Summit to be held in Budapest, Hungary
Once every 6 months the Ubuntu developers meet at a summit to discuss and plan the upcoming release of Ubuntu. The Ubuntu Developer Summit hence attracts a large number of developers, enthusiasts and users every time it is conducted.
Papercuts project back for Natty
The One Hundred Papercuts project is back for another round of dedicated bug fixing during the Ubuntu 11.04 development cycle. But this time with a slight difference… The Aim During the Maverick development cycle the paper cuts team shot straight past their planned goal of squashing 100 niggling issues, going on to fix 117 bugs [...]
Screenshots: Desktop Unity in Natty
Desktop Unity became the default Desktop Environment in Ubuntu 11.04 recently. Though its quite a bit buggy, it does look good!
Fix ‘blank’ photo prints problem in GIMP
Many users were surprised to find out that, after upgrading to Maverick, GIMP no longer prints out photographs, but instead prints out blank pages. Fortunately, I have found the fix to this, which shall land in Maverick through update-manager in a few weeks.
Unity workspace mock-up; 4 workspace limit in Ubuntu 11.04
Mark Shuttleworth recently responded to a Unity workspace mock-up the Ayatana Mailing List and revealed some interesting features of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty…